Problems with IPv6*It's over*

I have been letting virt choose between most of hte 18 trillion addresses of a /64(which is the minimum allocation supported by ipv6 technicall). I am going to reduce the range of address virt can choose from and see if this helps. I ahve also talked to a coder freind of mine and he is curious about this section on the perl site: Sockopts => ARRAY

An optional array of other socket options to apply after the three listed above. The value is an ARRAY containing 2- or 3-element ARRAYrefs. Each inner array relates to a single option, giving the level and option name, and an optional value. If the value element is missing, it will be given the value of a platform-sized integer 1 constant (i.e. suitable to enable most of the common boolean options).

For example, both options given below are equivalent to setting ReuseAddr.

Sockopts => [
   [ SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR ],
   [ SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack( "i", 1 ) ],
]

V6Only => BOOL

If defined, set the IPV6_V6ONLY sockopt when creating PF_INET6 sockets to the given value. If true, a listening-mode socket will only listen on the AF_INET6 addresses; if false it will also accept connections from AF_INET addresses.

If not defined, the socket option will not be changed, and default value set by the operating system will apply. For repeatable behaviour across platforms it is recommended this value always be defined for listening-mode sockets.

Note that not all platforms support disabling this option. Some, at least OpenBSD and MirBSD, will fail with EINVAL if you attempt to disable it. To determine whether it is possible to disable, you may use the class method

if( IO::Socket::IP->CAN_DISABLE_V6ONLY ) {
   ...
}
else {
   ...
}

If your platform does not support disabling this option but you still want to listen for both AF_INET and AF_INET6 connections you will have to create two listening sockets, one bound to each protocol.

I am curious if there is not come kind of syntax error causing this issue....or a memory overflow from trying to parse 18 trillion addresses. If this fails.....i might consider forking it and having it rewritten from scratch...or just saying to hell with things and shutdown. Do not know yet. if this fixes it though..simply reducing the range of electable addresses...i will expect some compensation...if i get none I'll fork the code..have it completely re-written and explore other options.